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More satire, topical gags, music, plus one short person, a Viking and a lady. Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , with Mitch Benn , Marcus Brigstocke , Emma Kennedy and Jon Holmes. Rptd from Friday6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Mitch Benn
Unknown:
Marcus Brigstocke
Unknown:
Emma Kennedy
Unknown:
Jon Holmes.

By Peter Roberts.

Anna Cassidy was one of the most promising Irish flautists of her generation, winning every competition she entered as a junior. Twenty years later - with a grown-up son, a broken marriage and mild agoraphobia to cope with - a chance meeting with an old friend prompts her to pick up her flute again. To her amazement, she still has the gift and bit by bit she gains the confidence to enter local competitions as an old rivalry is resumed. But will she have to courage to fly to Ireland for the Grand Final?

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Roberts.
Music arranged and played by:
Steve Dunachie
Music arranged and played by:
Esther Hayward
Director:
Peter Leslie Wild
Anna:
Janet Maw
Bernard:
Peter Meakin
Mike:
Richard Derrington
Brendan:
J.D. Kelleher
Jimmy:
John O'Mahony
Rita:
Caroline Lennon
Eileen:
Maggie McCarthy
Andy:
Thomas Arnold

The success ofZadie Smith's first novel White Teeth was the stuff of dreams. Tom Sutcliffe and guests assess whether her long-awaited follow-up The Autograph Man wil be equally successful. Plus a double-bill of theatre and film director Sam Mendes , whose Road to Perdition his first film since the Oscar-winning American Beauty- opens the same week as his decade at London's Donmar
Warehouse nears its end with his penultimate production, Uncle Vanya. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Director:
Sam Mendes
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

How does it feel to present news about your home country knowing yourfriends and family are listening and living through those events? Three presenters from the BBC World Service tell their own powerful stories exposing the raw and deeply personal dilemmas which their ambiguous position forces them to confront on a daily basis. 3: Beatriz Gomez from Colombia.
Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Beatriz Gomez

Music, DJs, dance, fashion, drink, sex and drugs - the highlights and lowlights of a night on the tiles are explored by Tony Wilson , former co-owner of Manchester's most successful and influential club, the Hacienda. He shimmies through the history of clubbing, from Jimmy Savile -the first DJ to take his gramophone to a nightclub -to the sophisticated mixing and sampling of today's Ministry of Sound, via the Northern Soul scene of the 1970s. Producer Sara Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilson
Unknown:
Jimmy Savile
Producer:
Sara Parker

By George Gissing. Dramatised by Tony Ramsay in three parts. 2: Edwin Reardon fears he is failing as a novelist and is notgetting the support he wants from Amy. Meanwhile his friend Jasper's ambition leads him to incur the wrath of Marion Yule 's father.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Gissing.
Dramatised By:
Tony Ramsay
Unknown:
Edwin Reardon
Unknown:
Marion Yule
Narrator:
Harold Pinter
Edwin:
Jonathan Firth
Amy:
Emilia Fox
Jasper:
Jonathan Cake
Marian Tracy:
Ann OBErman
Mr Yule:
Kenneth Cranham
Mrs Yule:
Ann Beach
Biffen:
Ian Masters
Dora:
Helen Longworth
Quarmby:
David Timson
Carter:
Martin Hyder
John:
Carl Prekopp
Amy's mother:
Jemma Churchill

Subsidy Culture: Can British Farming Survive without State Support. Are they the greatest obstacle to international trade and the growth of developing countries orthe only reason Britain's beleaguered farmers survive at all? Nick Ross and team ask whether farming can ever be free from subsidies. Repeated from Wednesday 8pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Ross

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